Brinkie's Brae (Personal)
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern KWKRBBKGWBRBGRKWK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=354
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1999 — Brinkie's Brae (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Brinkie's Brae is a rocky ridge above the town of Stromness on Orkney where the designer's parents were born. On Orkney the surname Johnston comes from the Faroese name Johannson and has no connection with the Border Johnstons. Use of this tartan is controlled by the designer. Stromness was once known as Hamnavoe ('haven bay') in Old Norse. - pre 2002 — Brinkie's Brae (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Brinkie's Brae is a rocky ridge above the town of Stromness on Orkney where the designer's parents were born. On Orkney the surname Johnston comes from the Faroese name Johannson and thus has no connection with the Border Johnstons. Use of this tartan is controlled by the designer. Stromness was once known as Hamnavoe ("haven bay") in Old Norse. - undated — Brinkie's Brae (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 1999 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 354
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2572
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2572
Thread count
K/6 W8 K6 R36 DB2 N36 K2 G36 W2 DB36 R2 N36 G2 R36 K6 W8 K/6
One full sett is 520 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s17/k3w4k3r18db1n18k1g18w1db18r1n18g1r18k3w4k3~x2/